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The question ownership needs to answer over the next month is whether they should fully clean house. Schoen listed off the pieces on the roster that will make the Giants attractive to head-coaching candidates. But there’s no way to add Schoen to the list of selling points.
It would obviously be more enticing for head coaching candidates to start with a clean slate on the same timeline as a new GM. There’s no benefit for a new head coach to join a general manager who would be entering his fifth year on the heels of three consecutive abysmal seasons.
Two franchises are already set to have openings in 2026. The Tennessee Titans and New York Giants fired Brian Callahan and Brian Daboll, respectively, in-season and should already be leafing through the list of candidates. Of these two franchises, New York certainly feels like the better opportunity. Jaxson Dart and Cam Ward are both promising rookie quarterbacks, but the Giants appear to have more young building blocks on their roster.
Tennessee has surrounded Ward with one of the league’s most lackluster supporting casts, while New York has intriguing pieces around Dart. Malik Nabers and Cam Skattebo may be out for the year, but they can form a strong trio with Dart moving forward. The Giants also have some solid defensive contributors—like Dexter Lawrence, Brian Burns and Abdul Carter—who should appeal to Tomlin and his defensive background. Plus, the opportunity to return one of the league’s premier franchises to relevance and potentially cement a Hall of Fame career would be hard to ignore.
If you wanted Joe Schoen fired before he stepped to the microphone inside the New York Giants’ field house on Tuesday afternoon, nothing he was about to say was going to change your mind.
The thing is: to remain the Giants’ general manager beyond this season, Schoen does not have to change the minds who want him gone. In reality, that’s a fruitless exercise.
